Source: Sex and Character (1903), p. 105.
“To be an existentialist, one must be able to feel oneself — one must know one’s desires, one’s rages, one’s anguish, one must be aware of the character of one’s frustration and know what would satisfy it. The over-civilized man can be an existentialist only if it is chic, and deserts it quickly for the next chic.”
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Norman Mailer
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Advertisements for Myself
"The White Negro", first published in Dissent (Summer 1957)
Advertisements for Myself (1959)
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